Blundellsands & Crosby railway station

Blundellsands & Crosby railway station is a railway station in the Blundellsands area of Merseyside, England. It also serves the adjacent town of Crosby. It is situated on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network.

Blundellsands & Crosby
Location
PlaceBlundellsands
Local authoritySefton
Coordinates53.48767°N 3.04038°W / 53.48767; -3.04038
Grid referenceSJ310994
Operations
Station codeBLN
Managed byMerseyrail
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 1.370 million
2015/16 1.411 million
2016/17 1.470 million
2017/18 1.437 million
2018/19 1.668 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTEMerseytravel
ZoneC3
History
1848Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Blundellsands & Crosby from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

Blundellsands & Crosby opened in 1848 as an intermediate station on the Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway. It became part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) on 14 June 1855[1] who took over from the (LCSR). The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and in turn was Grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948 and in 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatisation in 1995).

Facilities

The station underwent a revamp at a cost of £250,000 in 2009, including the installation of electronic timetables, in July that year. The refurbishment included a new toilet with disabled access, changes to the waiting rooms such as automatic doors, CCTV, new flooring, seats, new windows and heating. In 2010 a new 101-space car park was constructed on the site of the previous one, including new surfacing, marked bays, lighting and landscaping. There is also cycle racks for 30 cycles and secure cycle storage for 74 cycles.[2]

Services

Trains operate every 15 minutes throughout the day from Monday to Saturday and on summer Sundays to Southport to the north, and to Hunts Cross in Liverpool via Liverpool Central to the south.[3] Winter Sunday services are every 30 minutes in each direction.

  • The view towards Southport, in 1962.
  • A Merseyrail Class 507 arrives with a service from Liverpool.
  • The station entrance, from the roadside.
  • Platform decoration at the station.

References
  1. Awdry 1990, p. 88
  2. "Blundellsands-and-Crosby train station | timetable | ticket prices & facilities". www.merseyrail.org. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  3. Table 103 National Rail timetable, May 2017
  • Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. London: Guild Publishing. CN 8983.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Hall Road
towards Southport		   Merseyrail
Northern Line		   Waterloo
towards Hunts Cross
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